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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

pathfinder.com

Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

30 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

663 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pathfinder.com page load time and found that the first response time was 30 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pathfinder.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value380 ms

70/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.026

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pathfinder.com

30 ms

www.pathfinder.com

36 ms

249 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

54 ms

style.css

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Pathfinder.com, 59% (37 requests) were made to Timeinc.com and 27% (17 requests) were made to . The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (995 ms) relates to the external source Timeinc.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 493.1 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

857.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pathfinder.com main page is 1.4 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 745.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 63.7 kB

  • Original 81.8 kB
  • After minification 80.4 kB
  • After compression 18.1 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 63.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 39.9 kB

  • Original 745.1 kB
  • After minification 705.3 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Pathfinder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 272.0 kB

  • Original 384.7 kB
  • After minification 351.4 kB
  • After compression 112.7 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 272.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 117.6 kB

  • Original 138.5 kB
  • After minification 106.4 kB
  • After compression 20.9 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Pathfinder.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pathfinder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pathfinder.com

pathfinder.com

30 ms

www.pathfinder.com

www.pathfinder.com

36 ms

249 ms

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wp-emoji-release.min.js

54 ms

style.css

style.css

57 ms

ism5ccm.js

ism5ccm.js

251 ms

loadtypekit.js

loadtypekit.js

163 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

160 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

157 ms

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jquery-2.1.0.min.js

155 ms

popcornjs.js

popcornjs.js

158 ms

timeinc_s_code.js

timeinc_s_code.js

177 ms

stache.js

stache.js

151 ms

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152 ms

init.js

init.js

162 ms

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brands-ajax.js

171 ms

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wp-embed.min.js

159 ms

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ism5ccm-d.css

866 ms

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34 ms

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29 ms

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153 ms

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16 ms

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143 ms

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144 ms

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26 ms

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brand_landing_hero.png

142 ms

trending-tags.json

trending-tags.json

61 ms

time.json

time.json

43 ms

icon_footer_facebook.png

icon_footer_facebook.png

196 ms

icon_footer_twitter.png

icon_footer_twitter.png

194 ms

icon_footer_linkedin.png

icon_footer_linkedin.png

195 ms

subnav.html

subnav.html

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subscribe.png

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p.gif

p.gif

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icomoon.woff

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nr-885.min.js

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Accessibility Review

pathfinder.com accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

pathfinder.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

pathfinder.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pathfinder.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Pathfinder.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pathfinder. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: